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March 15, 2019 - Week in Ethereum News

`Dai Card with a Vengeance

Evan Van Ness
Mar 16, 2019
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News and Links

Layer 1

  • Latest issue of what’s new in eth2

  • Beacon chain spec v0.5

  • Latest Eth2.0 implementer call. Agenda to follow along.

  • Wire protocol for Eth2 from Whiteblock

  • Nimbus dev update: sim progress, speed optimizations, beginnings of fork choice and a wire protocol implementation

  • Prysmatic dev update: LMD Ghost fork, e2e testing tool, Sparse Merkle trie tools for validator post activation

  • Yeeth dev update: libp2p implementation, BLS, spec contributions

  • Eth2 data visualizer built at EthParis

  • Piper Merriam on serialization options in Eth2

  • protolambda’s eth2 state transition function in Go

  • Validator economics in Eth2, part 2

  • Jacek Sieka’s beacon chain in practice explainer

  • Hsiao-Wei’s “life of a beacon chain validator” slides

Layer 2

  • Connext’s DaiCard launches on mainnet. Instant Dai payments over state channels. Limited to $30 right now as it is still beta.

  • Matter Labs is working to implement a Sonic SNARK structure (ie, no trusted setup) with first benchmarks at ZK Summit in a week

  • Cryptostaw - “decentralized Venmo” built on Matic Network/Plasma. Live on Kovan.

  • Enuma enumerates on its trustless exchange and SDK

  • Pisa: Vision for Off-chain and Non-Custodial Smart Contract Networks. Patrick McCorry’s survey of layer 2 and how a 3rd party watchtower helps them reach full potential.

Stuff for developers

  • Solidity v0.5.6

  • OpenZeppelin v2.2

  • Truffle v5.0.8

  • Buidler beta 2 with TypeScript support for tests and configuration

  • Solidity IDE v2

  • Nodesmith: an API for Ethereum’s JSON RPC

  • Tutorial: OpenLaw API + Truffle + React.js

  • what’s new in iExec SDK v3

  • Enjin’s SDK live on the Unity Asset Store.

  • NFT QR dispenser

  • TheGraph compares GraphQL to SQL

  • How Mythril went from simple symbolic analyzer to security platform

  • Portis SDK adds Gas Station Network so apps can sponsor gas fees for users

Ecosystem

  • What is Burner Wallet and what is xDai? explainer. Also, the Helena prediction markets platform moved to xDai

  • Taylor Monahan: the impossible balance between security and usability

  • Kent Barton: scaling civility. Also: Aya Miyaguchi’s statement on community values.

  • Submissions from ETHParis and EthUofT. My favorite was Marius van der Wijden’s GPU Snark - 148x speedup on the Fast Fourier Transform part of the proof

Enterprise

  • Oaken Innovations/Brisa/ViaVerde on MOBI prizewinner Vento. Tokenized euro on Ethereum/Quorum for tolling, parking, etc

  • Middle East real estate developer Emaar planning to sell a token for “full referral and loyalty system across the entire group”

  • Air cargo billing, costing and reconciliation system. Article doesn’t say but since blockchain = Ethereum, it was built on Ethereum

Governance and Standards

  • Latest core developers call. Agenda to follow along.

  • r/ethereum is going through some governance growing pains

  • Loredana: Implementing a Layer 2 voting mechanism with noncustodial onboarding

  • EIP1155 is in last call

  • ERC1843: Claims token standard

  • ERC1844: ENS interface discovery

  • EIP1829: Ecmul precompile

Application layer

  • The 2019 season of Major League Crypto Baseball: player performance will influence how often the player is minted. They’re also moving everyday gameplay actions offchain.

  • Veil now lets you create your own markets

  • Melon: goodbye Melonport, hello world

  • Spankchain 2019 plans: private shows, international models, accepting credit cards, video purchasing.

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks 

  • Eth1 leader Alexey Akhunov on Into the Ether

  • Kyber’s Loi Luu on Decentralize This

  • Uniswap’s Hayden Adams with Laura Shin

  • KZen’s Omer Shlomovits on Hashing It Out

  • Skale Network’s Stan Kladko on NEAR’s Whiteboard Series

  • MolochDAO’s Ameen Soleimani on POV Crypto

  • Truffle’s Tim Coulter on Software Engineering Radio

  • All the EthCC talks

  • Vitalik Buterin “scalable blockchains as data layers” from Taipei meetup

Tokens / Business / Regulation

  • SEC Chairman Clayton agrees with Hinman’s statement outlining why Eth is not a security

  • House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy calls for US Congressional transparency using blockchain

  • Fred Wilson on Decentralized Finance, though he only got into the very basics of DeFi activity.

  • Interesting analysis of LAND markets in Decentraland

  • Short selling in bonding curves

General

  • Joe Lubin: in 2 years, Ethereum will handle millions of transactions per second

  • Gitcoin is doing another $50,000 grant matching program

  • Starkware: Arithmetization II

  • Trustlines Network is rebooting as a proof of stake sidechain to Ethereum

  • Mainnet hub of Cosmos launches

  • Omise’s Go.exchange soft launched

  • MyEtherWallet launches EthVM block explorer. Ropsten only at the moment.

  • “Hunting Huobi scams” Harry’s writeups of phishing attacks are always interesting


Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note (new in bold):

  • Mar 22 - Zero Knowledge Summit 0x03 (Berlin)

  • Mar 27 - Infura end of legacy key support 

  • April 4-5 - Deconomy (Seoul)

  • April 8-14 - Edcon hackathon and conference (Sydney)

  • Apr 19-21 - ETHCapetown

  • Apr 29 - Oslo Blockchain Day

  • May 9 - Fluidity Summit (NYC)

  • May 10-11 - Ethereal (NYC)

  • May 16 - Token Summit (NYC)

  • May 17-19 - ETHNewYork

  • May 17 - Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork

  • May 23-25 - Swarm Orange Summit (Madrid)

  • June 22-24 - Zcon1 (Split, Croatia)


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